Tag: aws-must

Introduction

AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create a collection of related AWS resources and provision them on Amazon Platform. In order to make AWS infrastructure management even more efficient and manageable, aws-must-templates adds Template Generator and Test Runner to the set of available tools for an AWS administrator.

This blog entry goes trough a scenario starting with installation of aws-must-templates, continuing with creation an AWS infrastructure, and ending with testing of the infrastructure.

Introduction

In a previous blog-post, I presented a tool called aws-must. The tool itself is very simple, and quite useless without templates driving the transformation from YAML to (CloudFormation) JSON.

In this blog post, I will introduce aws-must-templates, which is a set of mustache templates for creating CloudFormation JSON. Implementation without tests is asking for trouble, and therefore aws-must-templates are accompanied with test suites to validate correctness of the CloudFormation stacks created.